RHN subscription

Antonio Montagnani anto.montagnani at virgilio.it
Sat Sep 3 04:47:09 UTC 2005


Tom Diehl said the following on 03/09/2005 02:28:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 22:24 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Tony Nelson wrote:
>>>
>>>> At 3:40 PM -0500 9/1/05, Jeff Vian wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 03:39 +0930, Tim wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:25 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you want to check for updates, try "yum check-update" instead.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which takes several minutes to complete (fetch new information, and
>>>>>> parse local files, etc.).  Yet RHN would let you know in a few 
>>>>>> seconds
>>>>>> that there were some updates, and would only go through the long 
>>>>>> process
>>>>>> of working out what, *if* you wanted to follow it up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I miss that aspect of RHN.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The RHN alert icon is on the panel for me by default.  All it takes 
>>>>> is a
>>>>> few seconds to configure it and it works to do exactly what you 
>>>>> suggest.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think many people on this list would like to know how exactly to
>>>> configure RHN to work on FC4.
>>>
>>>
>>> You can't. RHN does not nor has it ever supported FC anything. 
>>> Besides why
>>> would you want to? (its a rhetorical question, do not answer it I do 
>>> not really
>>> care) :-) You have a perfectly good updating system with yum. All you 
>>> need to do
>>> is READ one of the many documents on it and away you go.  It is not 
>>> really that
>>> hard as long as you are willing to take a few minutes to learn about it.
>>>
>>
>> You are right Tom, RHN does not do the updates.  However, the RHN alert
>> icon for telling you that updates are available does work on FC4.
> 
> 
> Where did I say it didn't? The OP asked about RHN not the applet.
> 
>> I use the icon to let me know updates are available since I do not want
>> to allow yum to do updates automatically. Then, when I chose, I do the
>> updates manually.
> 
> 
> Ok, I do not see any problem with mine anyway. Works out of the box.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tom
> 
Tom

do you mean that turns blue and red???
Mine stopped working after upgrading from FC3 and FC4 and then running 
the first general update after CD installation.

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  Antonio
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